The failure of conservatism in modern British poetry
By: Andrew Duncan
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Bristol
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781848614987
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Conservatism and literature; English poetry; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What just happened?; title: Accounts of style history; title: Form, time, fashion; title: Information on non-standard poem models; title: Variations on a time theme; title: Blowing your mind: immediacy in the 1960s; title: Earthly & lying tales: the history of data processing; title: The first possible discontinuity: The English Intelligencer and its offshoots; title: From the counter-culture to personal politics: speculation and experiment, 1967-75; title: The Gothic strain in 1970s poetry; title: The fragmentation of the grounds of debate in the 1970s; title: The breakdown of subjectivity; title: The 1980s: Conservatism and rollback; title: The 1980s: Ego-histoire; title: The 1980s: Neo-conservativism and cheap information; title: Isolation and fulfilment: poetry in the 1990s.